Play Book Tag discussion

Normally I don't mind reading things out of order, but in this case it was an annoyance to read this life-changing event in J.P. Beaumont's life before I'd read the 2 previous full-length novels that preceded this.

I wish Jance had turned this into a full-lengther too. It seems too dramatic and traumatic an episode in Beau's life to be relegated to a novella. I had always hated the corny S.H.I.T. acronym for their Special Homicide Investigation Team, knowing that a name like that would never fly in real life, and I had complained about it in reviews before, hoping it would get changed. Well, I never expected the change to be this drastic.

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To kill off Ross Connors and totally disband S.H.I.T? Wow.

Then to get Mel kidnapped by the man whose job she was taking over, that was just cheesy. As a motive it sucked. The drama with Beau coming to her rescue, wrapping things up so quickly in a neat little bow, more of the same cheesy sucky corn, but that I could grudgingly put up with.


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So overall, though I liked the dramatic turn of events in Beau's life, I hated the cheesy excuse for a "mystery" and "thriller" that was thrown into this novella. Jance can do better, I don't know why she felt she had to rush to put out a novella when a full-length novel would have served this story so much better. I'll give this 3 stars.

Lol, okay well maybe my comment on your other Jance installment was written too soon. Despite the three star rating, it doesn't sound like you enjoyed this much. Cheesy is not a word I like to associate with my reading.

She usually writes better than this - and the writing itself was ok, the emotion in the trauma was done well, I just did not like the plot at all. Feels like it was thrown together under duress.